You must have poise not pose to really innovate.
We’ve all heard how you need to be innovating. We’ve felt the pressure to show and prove the results of our innovation initiatives.
In established organisations which are constantly battling the effects of legacy command-and-control structures, the pressure has led to false metrics and ‘innovation management’ which has become an oxymoron.
Use the list below to rapidly asses if you are poised or posed to innovate.
You are innovation posers if:
- You have an ‘innovation panel’ but it has no budget and no direct links to the CEO
- You have to go through ‘a business process’ to justify experimentation
- You have no means to experiment, not even pretending to allow it
- Your staff are not permitted dwell time
- Your staff are not permitted to work on projects outside their immediate functional area
- You half-heartedly encourage side projects but your employment contracts prevent it
- Training is something offered during the interview but the request process is geared to approval-prevention
- You don’t have free…
